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player ready...If contrasts make for a good party, the opening of Marshall Field`s 1989 Spring Trend House benefiting Chamber Music Chicago and the DejAvant 89/The Concert Series had it all.
More than 250 guests sipped and dined on hors d`oeuvres under a leafy arbor created across the inside main aisle of the State Street retailer`s eighth-floor furniture section. They crushed through two contrasting trend apartments-a lush, plant-filled tropical abode filled with wicker
reproductions of furnishings from the Manila Hotel apartment of the late Gen. Douglas MacArthur and an Art Deco-feel contemporary dwelling that, by comparison, is sophisticated and stark.
For entertainment, the Turtle Island String Quartet, who insist that their music includes ”jazz, bluegrass, Indian, American folk with classic overtones,” performed from an unlikely stage in the traditional antiques department.
Always eye-popping, the Trend House springs from the home-furnishings fantasies of trend watcher David Snyder, Field`s vice president/home fashion merchandising director (see Design page).
People watching was just as rewarding as interiors gazing. Seen were Hope Abelson, William Farley and fashion designer Adrienne Vittadini; also veteran home-furnishings designer John Mascheroni and newcomer Zev Vaughn, contributors of much of the contemporary home furnishings.